CURRENT MISSION

Discover as many places, meet as many people, gather as many experiences, learn as much as possible, embrace freedom to the fullest, and inspire as well as be inspired along the way! Since October 2013, we’ve been a family of three. Together with our daughter India, we’ve explored the Canary Islands, Thailand, Australia, and Japan. Our mission is to introduce our daughter to the beauty of the world and its diverse cultures, languages, and people, so she can grow up with respect, tolerance, and an appreciation for simplicity—living a joyful life.

ABOUT US

We are funny, amicable, nice, interested, chilled, enthusiastic, sporty, friendly, creative, cosmopolitan people who like snowboarding, yoga, surfing, beach volleyball and rock climbing. We also enjoy to cook, eat, dance and a good laugh. We are interested in movies, books, music and especially people. Franka plays the guitar, India likes to sing and dance, and Steffen is a good music listener ;-) We love being outdoors and hike a lot. And we love to meet many new people from all over the world!

PHILOSOPHY

Don't wait too long, as life could be over before you fulfill your dreams!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

While traveling we always tried to bring as much love, life and happiness in our host's homes as possible. When we temporarily settled in Goerlitz, Germany, while our daughter came into our lifes, we enjoyed offering a couch for others. Now that we are on the road again, we hope to find new friends, who would also accept a little family.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

With all our surfs in Canada, U.S., Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Kenya, South Africa, Dubai, England, and Japan we only had amazing experiences. While being in Germany we were hosting and it was amazing to bring the world to our own couch. Thanks, CS!

Interests

• books
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• rock climbing
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

There are so many to mention and it is hard to decide, what we love and what not. We love to get inspired by others and love to hear about there favourite books, music and films. Some movies we like are f.e. Fight Club, The Shawshank Redemption, Memento, The Godfather I-III, Pulp Fiction, The Dark Knight, Leon, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Wars: Episode IV-VI (okay, the Ewoks sucked), Casablanca, The Matrix (only part one), The Lord of the Rings I-III, Goodfellas, City of God, Indiana Jones I-III, The Usual Suspects, Life of Brian, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Moon.

books from Hermann Hesse and Terry Pratchett; Shantaram; The Book Thief; Momo; The Kite Runner; Hunger games; Shadow of the wind...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

We will tell you about this on the couch ;-) We grew up in East Germany and then travelled a lot. So we have some stories to tell.

Teach, Learn, Share

There is much to learn left.
We can teach Yoga, German, English or Spanish. We can give warm meals, interesting conversations, reiki, swedish massage, and just having a good time together. We are good with computers, social media marketing as well as photography.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Have a yoga session with Franka, get a great picture of you from a professional photographer, who is also an amazing cook, and enjoy the big smile and blue eyes of our little daughter.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malawi, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, India, Spain

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